Cake lifter



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UNITED sters fe r eric JOHN L. Laconic,v or srocKroN, CALIFORNIA.

CAKE tierna.

.Application med February 2o, 1922. sei-,intray 537,893. y

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN L. Laconic, a citizen of the United States, residing at p Stockton, county of San Joaquin, State of California, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Cake Lifters; and I do declare the following to be a full,y clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, y

.the individual plates by inserting a knife or other flat bladed implement between the piece to be removed and its supporting plate, and lifted by this means from one plate to the other, the thumb of the servitor being frequently placed on top of the piece to prevent its toppling over.

Since in the Cafeterias, dairy lunch places and those of a like nature, the cake is dispensed and served in Jfull view of the patron, this method of handling the cake is objectionable to a good many, who prefer to have their food touched, at least in their sight, by no hands other than their own.

The principal object of my invention therefore is to eliminate the above described crude and objectionable method of cake serving by providing for thispurpose an implement adapted to be easily manipulated by the servitor and by means of which the wedge of cake may be firmly grippedon opposite sides without being touched at any time by the hands of the servitor, and lifted from its original resting place to the in dividual plate for serving to the patron.

Another object is to provide gripping members for the implement so constructed that a firm hold on the cake may be had without excessive pressure being used, which will not bite into the cake so as to ruin its appearance, and which may be very easily and quickly cleaned when necessary.-

at rightangles to the plane of movement of Y the handle portions 3, and lso alined'kwith v, .y l

" A 'further object? of the invent-ion is'to produce a simple and inexpensive device 'and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which'it is designed;

These objects accomplish by meansof such structure and relative arrangementfof parts as willfully appear by a perusal-"of the following specification and claims.

The figure on the drawings is a perspective view' of the implement" showingV the gripping plates in their contracted position. Referring now `moreparticularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the: .f

numeral l denotes a pair of handles, preferably pivotecl together as at 2 intermediate their ends, in the manner of a pair of pliers or sscissors, and so as to leave one pair of portions 3 somewhat shorter than the other.

A spring 4l of any suitable character acts ,tol

hold these portions, and also the other and actual handle members, normally spread.

Fixed to the outer ends of thev portions 3 are broad, flat plates 4, positioned in planes respect to each other that when `the handles are brought together the plates will gripv a triangular wedge on both sides, with the base of the triangle toward the inner end of the plates.

The angular setting of the plates may vary in different models of the implement,` but since the majority of cakes is of a standard size, and the triangular pieces into which a cake is cutk up are about uniform everywhere, a single stock design Will probably suffice.

The handle portions 3 flare away from the plates somewhat beyond the vinner ends of the latter yas shown at 5, so that should the out-er and Wide edge of the cake-piece project beyond the plates, itwill not come in contactwith the relativelythin handlel por! tions. r

In operation, the servitor grips the handles and passes the plates lengthwise of the wedge of cake and along the sides thereof. By then contracting the handles, the vblades rmly grip the piece of cake, and it mayk then be easily lifted from one plate ontonanother withoutv handling the cake and without danger of its upsetting. Upon the contraeting pressure on the handles being rela do not form a departure from the spirit of theinvention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

LA cake lifter comprising a paiirof eon neoted handles adapted to movement to and from each other at one end, and gripping means fixed on such ends at right angles to Athe plane of movement thereof and adapted to grasp a triangular member therebetween with the base of the triangle lying adj aeent the handles.

2. A cake lifter comprising a pair of connectedhandlesadapted "to movement' to and from each other at one end, and flat plates Vfixed on such ends at right angles to the plane of movement thereof and positioned lwith their outer edges closer together than the opposite ends when the handles are brought together.

3. A cakeY lifterconiprising a pair of connected handles, adapted to movement to and from each other at one: end, and flat plates ixed onl suoli ends at right angles to the plane oi movement thereof and positioned with their outer edges Closer togetherv than.

the opposite ends when the handles arev brought together, and spring means no1 mally tending to hold the plates apart.

In testimony whereof;V I afix my signature.

JOHN L. LAGORIO. 

